This new five-chaptered DVD brings forth a thoughtful, much needed exploration of sexuality, intimacy, and dementia, and the complex issues that impact residents, family members, and care staff. Through five 15- to 20-minute videos, the DVD looks at the relevant concerns of intimacy and sexuality on quality of life, freedom to express sexuality, capacity to consent, resident protections, and potential legal ramifications. It also touches on the needs of LGBT residents, how to address resident-to-resident and resident-to-visitor encounters, and how to find workable solutions with the support of family members.

The 5-DVD Chapters cover:

Part 1: The Effects of Dementia on Intimacy and Sexuality
Part 2: Responding to Sexual Expressions
Part 3: Consensual Intimacy and Sexuality
Part 4: Spousal and Family Responses
Part 5: Non-consensual Intimacy and Sexuality
This DVD poses many relevant questions, and is designed to equip care staff with a well-rounded understanding of the sensitive issues concerning intimacy, sexuality, and the rights of persons with dementia, as well as, how to respond to expressions of sexuality in a manner that promotes both resident dignity and safety.

The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. THE BYSTANDER MOMENT tells the story of one of the most prominent and proven of these models - the innovative bystander approach developed by pioneering scholar and activist Jackson Katz and his colleagues at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society in the 1990s.

Drawing on examples from news and entertainment media throughout, Katz introduces the basic ideas and pedagogical practices that inform the bystander approach, which has now been implemented across the professional and college sports culture, in all branches of the U.S. military, and in a growing number of corporate and other institutional settings. He gives special focus to how the bystander approach targets peer culture dynamics - especially male peer culture dynamics - that help to normalize abusive behaviors toward woman and girls while silencing other men in the face of these patterns of abuse. And he shows how these deeply gendered dynamics are at the same time deeply inflected by intersectional factors like race, ethnicity, and class. In the end, Katz also stresses the crucial importance of appealing to people not as potential perpetrators or passive spectators, but as active bystanders and potential leaders who have a positive role to play in challenging and changing the sexist cultural norms that too often lead to gender violence.

THE BYSTANDER MOMENT is the first video of its kind to clearly lay out the basic principles and practices that inform this unique approach to bystander education, and to clarify how it differs in fundamental ways from other ""bystander intervention"" models that downplay the role that gender norms, especially our cultural ideas about manhood, play in reinforcing attitudes that can lead to gender violence. The result is an indispensable educational tool in the ongoing struggle to prevent gender violence and promote gender equality, and a powerful resource for those working to prevent discrimination, abuse, and violence against LGBTQ people and bullying in all of its forms, as well as in the fields of suicide prevention and alcohol abuse education.

ABOUT JACKSON KATZ
Jackson Katz, Ph.D., is an educator, author, filmmaker and cultural theorist who is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race and violence. He has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence.

He is co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention programs in North America, and the first major program of its kind in the sports culture and the military. MVP introduced the ""bystander"" approach to the sexual assault and relationship abuse fields; Katz is a key architect of this now broadly popular strategy.

Since 1997 he has run MVP Strategies, which provides sexual harassment and gender violence prevention/leadership training to institutions in the public and private sectors in U.S. and around the world.

He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How all Men Can Help, and Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity.

He has published numerous academic and journalistic articles on topics as far-ranging as the social justice and feminist roots of the bystander approach to sexual assault prevention, the powerful role of athletics in gender violence prevention, the gender and sexual politics of Eminem's songs, the gender politics of conservative talk radio, violent white masculinity in advertising, juvenile detention, pornography, and sports metaphors in presidential politics.

He is creator, lead writer and narrator of the award-winning Tough Guise videos. He lectures and trains widely in the U.S. and around the world on the imperative of men's leadership in the promotion of gender equity and the prevention of gender violence, and the many intersections in this work among gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and religion.

Lindsay (Eekwol) grew up in the First Nations community. She experienced an unforgiving world of drugs, alcohol and violence within her family. As a child, she lived in fear while her parents and their friends had endless parties that often broke out in fights. As she grew up in this environment, she soon developed into an abuser of drugs and alcohol herself. Falling victim to blackouts and on one occasion she almost died one night lying unconscious on the highway. This seminal moment caused her devoted sister to give up on her - unless she changed her ways. For the first time in her life, she listened, and the path of being clean and sober led to becoming a successful solo female aboriginal hip hop artist.

The above program is from the TEENS 101 SERIES - a multi-media initiative towards reaching, guiding, empowering, and inspiring youth through the issues that can affect their mental health and well being. The series communicates from a youth's perspective topics such as: depression and anxiety, addiction, self harm, mental illness, bullying, body image, self worth, family dysfunction, racism, sexuality and LGBTQ.

Combining interviews with experts and personal accounts from youth and their parents, TEENS 101 will help guide them through these difficult years and illustrates the major issues opposing youth today. From multiculturalism and family dynamics to media influences and mental health issues, TEENS 101 will provide thoughtful, informative and vital information to help youth and adults come to grips with the trials and tribulations associated with the teenage years. In this compelling thirteen-part television series about the world of a teenager in the new millennium, we take the viewer through the journey from adolescence to adulthood, examining the health and wellness of teenagers in today. This documentary-style series will examine the issues facing young people as they progress through high school and make the decisions that will affect them far into the future. This dynamic and thought provoking series will speak to people of all ages, opening up new topics for discussion for both parents and teens alike, and addressing the difficulties of growing up in the 21st Century.

*Thirteen programs 22 minutes each:

I'M NOT ADDICTED: Will's Story
DON'T DISS MY ABILITIES: Michelle's Story
BREAKING POVERTY: Billionaire PA's Story
BROKEN FAMILIES: Lydia's Story
LGBTQ - Acceptance: Joey's Story
STRESS AND CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS: Eileen's Story
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY: Eleanor's Story
ADDICTION IN FIRST NATIONS: Lindsay's Story
DEPRESSION AND EATING DISORDER: Sterling's Story
DEPRESSION AND SELF-HARM: Brittany's Story
IDENTIFYING TRANSGENDER: David's Story
SOCIAL MEDIA BULLYING: Cristina's Story
ASPERGER'S: Sean's Story

Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the internet, and "big data", the science of forecasting is flourishing. But why do some predictions succeed spectacularly while others fail abysmally? And how can we find meaningful patterns amidst chaos and uncertainty? From the glitz of casinos and TV game shows to the life-and-death stakes of storm forecasts and the flaws of opinion polls that can swing an election, PREDICTION BY THE NUMBERS explores stories of statistics in action. Yet advances in machine learning and big data models that increasingly rule our lives are also posing big, disturbing questions. How much should we trust predictions made by algorithms when we don’t understand how they arrive at them? And how far ahead can we really forecast?

NATIVE AMERICA explores the world created by America's First Peoples. The series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.

"The fight to stop fracking is a story of resistance powered by love -- for the water, for our communities and generations to come, for the better world that we're working so hard to build. In just 22 short, thundering minutes, WATER WARRIORS will leave you immersed in that story, seeing anew all that surrounds you."Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything

WATER WARRIORS is the story of a community’s successful fight to protect their water from the oil and natural gas industry.

In 2013, Texas-based SWN Resources arrived in New Brunswick, Canada to explore for natural gas. The region is known for its forestry, farming and fishing industries, which are both commercial and small-scale subsistence operations that rural communities depend on. In response, a multicultural group of unlikely warriors - including members of the Mi’kmaq Elsipogtog First Nation, French-speaking Acadians and English-speaking families - set up a series of road blockades, sometimes on fire, preventing exploration. After months of resistance, their efforts not only halted drilling; they elected a new government and won an indefinite moratorium on fracking in the province.

WATER WARRIORS is a short film and photo exhibit that can scale to fit a variety of spaces and events styles.

DIGITAL DISCONNECT - based on the acclaimed book by media scholar Robert McChesney, trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy in the age of fake news, filter bubbles, and Facebook security breaches. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from the development of the internet as a publicly funded project in the late 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, McChesney traces how the democratizing potential of the web is being radically compromised by the logic of capitalism and the unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies. The result is an indispensable classroom resource - a vital tool for helping students make sense of a technological revolution that’s radically transforming virtually aspect of human communication.

While most debates about the internet continue to focus on issues like the personal impact of internet addiction or the questionable data-mining practices of individual companies like Facebook, Digital Disconnect raises bigger questions about the political impact of the corporate and commercial interests that now dominate the internet. Along the way, it examines the ongoing attack on net neutrality by telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon; explores how internet giants like Facebook and Google have amassed huge profits by surreptitiously collecting personal data and selling it to advertisers; and shows how these companies have routinely colluded with the national security state to advance covert mass surveillance programs.

Even more urgently, Digital Disconnect clarifies how the rise of social media as a leading information source has worked to isolate people into ideological filter bubbles and elevate fake news at the expense of real journalism. At a time when debates about the questionable business practices of telecom and tech companies are moving to center stage like never before, Digital Disconnect raises crucial questions about who gets to control the internet and what it means for our democracy.

In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking Advertising & the End of the World, media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating personal and environmental fallout from advertising, commercial culture, and rampant American consumerism.

Ranging from the emergence of the modern advertising industry in the early 20th century to the full-scale commercialization of the culture today, Jhally identifies one consistent message running throughout all of advertising: the idea that corporate brands and consumer goods are the keys to human happiness. He then shows how this powerful narrative, backed by billions of dollars a year and propagated by the best creative minds, has blinded us to the catastrophic costs of ever-accelerating rates of consumption.

The result is an ideal teaching tool for courses that look at commercialism, media culture, social well-being, environmental issues, and the tensions between capitalism and democracy.

1. RESPECTING THE "MAOL"How Tourism is Changing Rapa Nui (Easter Island)Host Simon Baker travels to the remote south pacific island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to see how the recent growth in tourism is threatening the sanctity of its ancient Polynesian treasures, the indigenous Rapa Nui people and the environment. Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is one of the most remote inhabited Islands in the world. Lying 3500km’s off the coast of Chile, who annexed the Island in 1888, Rapa Nui is famous for its ‘Moai’, ancient stone statues its ancestors carved and moved throughout this remote south pacific island. Today, Rapa Nui has become a bucket list destination that each year draws more foreign tourists. The roughly 3500 indigenous Rapa Nui living on the island now worry about the impact increasing tourism, immigration, and commercial development is having on their culture and the legacy of their ancestors.

2. CHILE - The Fight for One of the Last Rivers in the Driest Place on EarthSimon travels to the top of the Andes in northern Chile where a massive new mining project threatens the sacred glaciers of the Colla people, the only source of water in one of the driest paces on earth. Travel to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the most mineral rich regions in the world. Centered around Copiapo, a town made famous in 2010 for the 33 miners who were rescued after a world record 69 days trapped underground, Simon learns how a more recent extreme weather event exposed the delicate balance between water and mining in the driest place on earth. Now, a massive new mining project at the top of the Andes threatens the prehistoric rock glaciers that give birth to the rivers that provide the only source of water.

3. CANADA / LAKE WINNIPEG - Is it too Late to Save Lake Winnipeg, the World’s 10th Largest Lake? Host Simon Baker travels to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why the world's tenth largest lake is dying and how indigenous knowledge can provide a means to ensure its survival. In Winnipeg, government, scientists and business leaders have come together to share their concerns about the future of Lake Winnipeg, the world’s tenth largest lake. For decades, the run off of fertilizers from agricultural production, sewage and commercial phosphates have flowed into Lake Winnipeg, creating huge algae blooms that are slowly sucking the life out of the lake, threatening the tourism and fishing industries that rely on it.

4. NAMIBIA: Conserving Culture for the Oldest People on the PlanetHost Simon Baker travels to Namibia to learn why the San people, the oldest culture on the planet, have created a vast conservation area to protect themselves from the outside world. Namibia is one of Africa’s newest countries. When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in the late 1990’s, the government created vast conservation areas called ‘conservancies’ that allowed its indigenous peoples to return to their homelands. From the capital city of Windhoek, Simon ventures north to visit the San people of Tsumkwe, descendants of some of the first people to have walked our planet. The San people created the Nyae Nyae Conservancy a vast protected area in their traditional territory that allows them to conserve their culture and big game..

5. LOUISIANA - Meet America’s First Climate Change RefugeesHost Simon Baker travels to the Bayous of southern Louisiana to see how three indigenous tribes are adapting to rising sea levels that are slowly sinking their communities. Travel to the gulf coast of Louisiana to visit three Native American tribes struggling to maintain themselves against more frequent hurricanes, rising seas levels and the fallout of oil production. Beginning in Pointe au Chien, Simon sees how the canals dug out by oil companies to ferry oil-drilling platforms to the Gulf of Mexico are dramatically eroding the shoreline and shrinking their land base. Combined with more frequent hurricanes and storm surges, However, for the neighboring tribe of Isle de Jean Charles, the sea level rise has already overtaken most of their territory and a recent federal government grant has given this Choctaw tribe the dubious distinction as ‘America’s first climate change refugees’.

6. MEXICO - For Mexico’s Forgotten People, Violence is Now an Environmental IssueHost Simon Baker travels deep into the remote Mezquital region of Northern Mexico where once forgotten indigenous communities are now caught in a battle between drug cartels and Mexico’s military police.Deep inside Mexico’s Durango State, meet indigenous communities still practicing their traditional justice systems, largely independent from the Government of Mexico. Long before the Spanish came to colonize the country centuries ago, the Mezquital, a remote part of the Sierra Madres Mountains, was home to the indigenous O'Dam, Mexicaneros and Wirrarika people. For generations, Mexico largely ignored these indigenous people who successfully carved out their own existence, culture, identity and social justice system. However, recent events have impoverished their agrarian communities and made them easy targets for the cartels, which coerce them into growing illegal crops.

Potlatch Keepers, it’s the central theme that first time Aboriginal filmmaker Lindsey Willie sets out to answer in this poignant and personal one hour TV documentary and companion website. A twenty eight year old Kwakwaka’wakw woman from Kingcome Inlet in B.C., Lindsey and her generation have been challenged by the few remaining Elders who still speak Kwak’wala language to preserve their culture and organize a potlatch for next year. But who can teach them the ceremony and protocols of the potlatch when history and residential school nearly killed their identity. Where can she gain the knowledge that she and other Kwakwaka’wakw youth leaders need to continue the legacy of her people. Potlatch Keepers is one woman’s journey of self discovery and cultural awakening, that shares an important message for First Nations youth all across Canada.

Meet the most scientifically studied people in the world. A group of 1,037 New Zealanders born in one city have been followed since their births in 1972. Members are now dispersed around the globe but 96% of the original group are still taking part - an extraordinary achievement in such a long running study.

This series follows the fascinating study and information it has provided in almost every field of medical and social development including respiratory and cardiovascular health, addictions, obesity, sexual health, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics and criminology and most interestingly the effects of nature and nurture on health and behavior.

It examines myths and facts surrounding long-term effects of childhood. It shows some of what happens in early life has no lasting influence, but also points at how important the early years can be in a number of areas that really do count. The series then moves on to the troubled teens. Why do some go bad and other come right?

We investigate the nature versus nurture argument. It is a genetic switch which is thrown by life events - nature loads the gun but nurture pulls the trigger. We track the hunt for the mechanism using three specific examples - violence in men, depression, & cannabis induced schizophrenia.

Finally we take a look at the effects of modern life and aging - how excessive cleanliness affects asthma & allergies, how poverty gets under the skin to cause lifelong damage, the physical effects of social isolation, and predicting mental illness and Alzheimer’s by just looking at back of people’s eyes.

The Series four 45-minute programs : Beginnings Count: A LotTroubled Teens: Why Some Go Bad and Others Come RightOur Genes and Us: Making It In A Tough EnvironmentModern life: How It Affects Our Health and Well-Being

"Reclaiming Life is profound, uplifting, and highly recommended , especially for public library and church DVD collections" Library Bookwatch

Each year more than one million people worldwide die by suicide, one person every 40 seconds. Research shows that at least 6 people suffer intimate trauma at each death - family members, friends, neighbors, and coworkers are left grieving, and struggling to understand.

A new film provides powerful, first-hand testimonies and theological insights on the devastating experience of losing a loved one to suicide. Seeking to erase the stigma surrounding this epidemic while offering hope and healing to survivors, this program features Ronald Rolheiser, author of The Holy Longing, Kay Warren, co-founder of Saddleback Church, and Marjorie Antus, author of My Daughter, Her Suicide, and God.

Kay Warren and Marjorie Antus candidly describe their journeys after the deaths of their children, from their moments of deepest anguish to eventual, hard-won peace. They reveal their children’s struggles with mental illness as well as the goodness and beauty of their lives.

Fr. Ronald Rolheiser, President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, provides pastoral and theological insights from his years of experience writing on suicide and serving families who have experienced this agonizing, and often misunderstood, loss.

While all death is unsettling, research has long shown that suicide survivors experience a very distinct set of bereavement issues - bewilderment, overwhelming guilt, and rage - and for people of faith, a sense of darkness and a spiritual void. In addition, society still attaches a stigma to suicide death, causing many survivors to experience judgment and isolation. The loved one’s memory is often shrouded in secrecy and shame, rather than celebrated. Reclaiming Life aims to set the record straight, offering hope.

CRIMINAL AND ADDICTIVE THINKING: Thinking about your Thinking Part 1 DVD 32 minutes, CCInmates, not actors, discuss their new understanding of how distorted thinking keeps them stuck in addictive and criminal behaviors. In a group setting as participants in a cognitive-behavioral treatment program, the inmates reflect on and challenge each other about their core beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions about themselves and the world around them. Among their discoveries about the way they think:*seeing yourself as a victim allows you to victimize others*distorted thinking leads to manipulative and aggressive behaviors*feelings of entitlement and criminal pride play into distorted thinking*in criminal thinking, self is first and everybody else is second.

Taped in correctional facilities, the video series allows real inmates to tell the real story about recovering from a life of addiction and crime. The result is a powerful, direct, and liberating message about finding a life of recovery and freedom. A NEW DIRECTION is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral therapy curriculum for addicted offenders.

CRIMINAL AND ADDICTIVE THINKING: Thinking about your Thinking Part 2 DVD 30 minutes, CCInmates, not actors, present a series of eight real-life, everyday prison scenarios that could easily escalate into violent incidents. After each scenario, viewers are asked to analyze the event, identify the feelings and distorted thinking involved, and determine possible replacement thoughts and behaviors. Using their own words and drawing from their own experiences, the inmates role-play situations that realistically portray how criminal and addictive thought patterns lead to destructive behaviors. The situations include:*an inmate's overreaction to a routine shakedown*a discussion among three inmates about whether to retaliate for a fight*a scuffle after an egregious foul on the basketball court*an inmate's angry phone call to his spouse who refuses to send money*a quarrel between roommates about how to resolve a conflict

CRIMINAL AND ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR TACTICS DVD 24 minutes, CCInmates, not actors, candidly discuss the tactics they have used to exact power and control over others--in prison and out of prison. In a group setting as participants in a cognitive-behavioral treatment program, the inmates share personal stories about manipulating, intimidating, physically assaulting, and even murdering individuals who got in the way of what they wanted. Raw, real, and tragic, the inmates' stories reveal:*how distorted thoughts and unresolved feelings fuel criminal behavior*why using drugs and committing crimes are fundamentally linked*what it really means to take charge of your life and respect others